Despite all the feministy parenting I perform each day, my daughter still remarked at a Chicago Red Stars game, "She looks like a boy!" as she pointed to a player. * sigh* Heck in pre-school we went thru a period when she * had* to wear a skirt or dress because "or else I'll look like a boy!"

While I had many bad teachers throughout middle and high school, I was raised by my mother who assumed from the time I started pre-school that I would not only go to college, but that I would finish graduate school.

When nationalized pre-school was a hot topic I was working in a restaurant and having an economics background, I polled the single mothers who worked in restaurant about what the would rather have X dollars extra a week or free day care, since most had a relative or swapped with a friend the average would rather have an extra $20/week than free day care.